30 Aug, 2010
Posted by: Craigo In: Cool Links|General|Politics|humor
The Abilene Paradox has been an important concept to understand in business culture and has been around for a while, but what we’re seeing with a fast collapse of left-wing ideology and in popularity of the Obama government may be best understood using it as well, noted by the Ace of Spades blog. In brief, [...]
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Good stuff…and good timing. Even better, looks like message received.
15 Aug, 2010
Strangely putting his foot into a debate (and his mouth) that would be best left to the people of New York City (or perhaps also families of those killed in the attack), Friday night Obama gave strong support for the building of the Ground Zero mosque. He took this “courageous” stand at an Islamic Ramadan [...]
One of the most important concepts to understand how misguided our economic policies today are is the “broken window fallacy.” The video below does a very good job of simplifying it. This isn’t a new concept, and it can be pretty obvious to anyone, especially economists. Which likely means that the intellectual class in Washington [...]
30 Jul, 2010
Posted by: Craigo In: Cool Links|Politics|humor
Via michellemalkin I’m guessing this Chris Christie curtsey wasn’t intentional. Kind of like anything positive that happens around Obama.
01 Jul, 2010
I would follow this stunningly full-of-win logic through, but then my head might explode. This is the kind of nonsensical thing someone like Sarah Palin supposedly says all the time, only actually Nancy Pelosi really does.
Why when they bring up the tired old “it’s for the children, you must not care about the children” argument every time the teacher’s union wants more free health benefits for themselves. Now if you actually want to use vouchers to let kids do something better with that money — you again hate children. For [...]
Yes. This just happened.
Libs like to look at a world where all poor people are good and all rich people are evil. Oddly un-nuanced for such a progressive lot. The reality is there are multiple kinds of poor people, including ones who will remain poor because they don’t care and live a life of crime and drugs, no [...]